Chris Wallace

Much like top-tier athletes understand the importance of staying mentally tough in order to reach the highest levels of achievement, so too, mental toughness is just as critical for poker players who want to be consistent winners.

Routinely questioning yourself, having the proper mindset, and resetting your brain every so often will help you up your mental fortitude and power through the variance, emotions, and beats that come your way at the poker tables.

Satellites give recreational poker players a great opportunity to win their way into events with higher buy-ins that they usually can’t afford to play in. Nonetheless, it’s important to play satellite poker tournaments properly.

WSOP bracelet winner Chris “Fox” Wallace goes into detail about two big mistakes that you need to be sure to avoid when playing satellites.

All is equal when you sit down with other players to start a poker tournament, right? Well, there’s a lot that separates the average Joes from the poker pros.

In this article, WSOP bracelet winner Chris Wallace gives us a glimpse into the mind of a professional poker player. Once you can better understand their perspective, you’ll see the extent to which you’re outclassed as a recreational player – but more importantly, also understand how you can counter the pros’ tactics.

Chris “Fox” Wallace has just started running his own poker tour, Next Level Poker, after being a successful tournament poker pro for many years. In this post, he shares some of the interesting lessons he learned from having staged his tour’s first event.

Definitely a worthwhile read for people who want to have a deeper understanding of the effort and resources it takes to pull off what we all take for granted as players.

Seasoned tournament poker players know that the best value can be found in soft fields. But how to find these elusive soft fields? Well, frankly, there are a number of factors that act as telltale signs that a particular poker tournament field is more likely to be soft.

Here, we list seven factors you ought to weigh when looking for a soft poker tournament field. Careful evaluation based on these parameters is certainly likely to increase your expected value.

Most anyone who has ever sat down to play in a poker tournament dreams of making big scores and perhaps even leaving the workforce to try and make a living playing poker. It’s not as easy as it looks though.

Veteran poker pro Chris “Fox” Wallace examines whether it’s possible to make a living by exclusively playing poker tournaments, as well as what would be required for the answer to that question to be “yes.”

There’s a tremendous amount of overhead associated with producing a well-run poker tournament series. WSOP bracelet winner Chris ‘Fox’ Wallace believe that he’s found ways to cut the costs while not sacrificing on the quality of the event.

He founded Next Level Poker with the goal of implementing these ideas, producing great poker tournaments at a low cost, and passing these savings on to the players and the hosting casinos.